After a Barnacle Goose was found in Brooklyn yesterday we Queens birders got jealous. Can you blame us? Anyway, you can imagine how my...

Canada Geese are a nuisance. They poop everywhere, they are far too common, they take down airplanes. Birders tend to ignore them, non-birders tend...

Like many birders I am cursed with a job. Considering the economic times we live in that is probably not the most politic way...

While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its paces,* I was entertained by...

Queens, NY, March 2010 For some reason, maybe because of the heroic effort I have made of late to get our new apartment completely...

Flushing Meadows Corona Park, March 2010 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus is a much-maligned and persecuted creature.  Like cormorants and shags the world over they...

Though they have a world-wide distribution and can be found on every continent except Antarctica, Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia is a bird that is not often spotted...

It is not every day that the beginning of a birding outing consists of calling 911, but that is how my walk around Meadow...